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Chiyomaru Shikura, the head of the 5pb. game production company, has announced via his Twitter account on Sunday that 5pb. and Nitroplus' Steins;Gate game is being animated for television. More details (which Shikura cannot reveal yet) will be provided in the September issues of Kadokawa Shoten's Newtype and COMPTIQ magazines, which will both ship on August 10. Singer/voice actress Halko Momoi also posted about the television anime adaptation in her Twitter account.

The game is the second "scientific adventure game" from 5pb. and Nitroplus, who also created Chaos;HEAd. The artist huke (Black Rock Shooter) designed the characters. The suspense story takes place in a realistic version of Tokyo's Akihabara otaku shopping district. The game originally shipped for the Xbox 360 console last October, and a Windows port is shipping on August 26. Yomi Sarachi launched the main manga adaptation in the November 2009 issue of Media Factory's Monthly Comic Alive magazine, and Kenji Mizuta launched the Steins;Gate: Bōkan no Rebellion spinoff in the February 2010 issue of Mag Garden's Monthly Comic Blade magazine.

It was no accident though. By assigning Chaos;Head to a mediocre team and then outsourcing most of the work overseas, Madhouse showed how little they cared about the property. To them, C;H was just an obscure, otaku pandering product that attracted an audience too tiny to care about (the PC game didn't sell all too well).

Whether they'd treat Steins;Gate any better depends on the current business strategy, as well as their perceived popularity of the title. Usually, Madhouse doesn't care about the hardcore otaku niche. However, their financial situation has also been shaky in recent years, so they may eventually be forced to go in directions they aren't entirely accustomed to.

^That's basically what i'm hoping for Madhouse to do, because it's about time they grew a little bit as a studio then keeping up with the same formula for so many years. I've got nothing against what they've done because the majority of it has been successful work, though you can only go so far with adapting source material and doing your own anime original ending, over and over again.

Right now Frontier Works and Media Factory are named, so it's not likely this will go to Madhouse. Looking forward to see how this gets adapted, as the game is easily one of the best visual novels out there. Chaos;Head can't even compare to it.

If you check out the official website, you will notice different divergence numbers ticking at random if you keep refreshing. I won't say much more because it'd be spoilers... except that this ticker is related to this twitter post. Click at your own risk.

I am a bit tempted to post a twitter to @chiyomaru5pb this Friday at 7:56 PM JST...

I really hope it's not DEEN. Not STEINS;GATE please... I heard so many great things about this and the anime will probably start Spring 2011, so I'll have finished the VN by then (I don't have a japanese XBox 360 yet, might get one for christmas... but the game comes out for PCs on the 26th anyway, so I can play it once it arrives).

I don't play a lot of VNs, especially not in Japanese since it takes forever (I'm so badddd) but this really intruiges me, just like 428 and Chaos;Head which I yet have to play... Gonna finish Umineko EP6 first, though... And with EP7 this week/next week... Well.

I knew there was a lot of hype around this show but I never realized how significant Steins;Gate is compared to the rest of Nitro+'s games. It's hard to say whether or not the anime will be good because this stuff can be tricky to adapt well, to say the least...